Reading today's Guardian report on the continuing green-and-gold protests against the Glazer family at Old Trafford is a bit like reading about the reaction of the leaders of east European Stalinist countries in the 1980s to dissident movements like Solidarność. Man U players have been ordered not to discuss it. A member of the audience on an MUTV chat show was ejected after being identified as a supporter of the campaign. Press conferences featuring Alex Ferguson have been edited so as to remove all mention of the campaign when broadcast on MUTV. An Old Trafford steward with two decades services was fired for returning an anti-Glazer banner to its owner. The campaign against the current club owners also has the support of Manchester United legends of the calibre of David Beckham and Eric Cantona and at least one member of the present team, Patrice Evra. All of this makes me enjoy even more the fact that the club's official TV station refuses to as much as acknowledge the existence of the protests absolutely everyone in the country is talking about. Clearly this station is being run by the same people who were putting out documentaries about collective farming on GDR telly on the night people were taking sledgehammers to the Berlin Wall.

My advice to the Glazers? Go. Now. While you can. The world can do without a Mancunian Ceausescu.

Read the complete post at http://yourfriendinthenorth.blogspot.com/2010/03/dont-mention-revolution.html

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Posted 12 Mar 2010 7:37 PM by yourfriendinthenorth